"Intimate and compulsively readable." --Alfred Corn, The Nation
The second volume of acclaimed author Christopher Isherwood's diaries
takes readers to the heart of the 1960s, the decade in which Isherwood's
semiautobiographical novel Goodbye to Berlin would be adapted into the
Tony Award-winning musical Cabaret. Against a background of cultural
paradigm shifts including the advent of space travel, pop art, and mod
fashion, and seminal events like the Kennedy/Nixon election, the
Marianne Faithfull/Mick Jagger romance, the rise of the Hippie movement,
and the riotous explosion of America's inner cities, The Sixties
follows Isherwood's friendships with creative powerhouses such as
Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Richard Burton, and Gore Vidal, and
continues the saga of his great romance with portraitist Don Bachardy.